Another post about the missional church. This time it’s Brad Brisco over at Missional Church Network. His recent post quotes Albert Curry Winn from A Sense of Mission: Guidance From the Gospel of John. Head to Brad’s site to read the entire quote. Here’s my favorite part:
We can preach the word and celebrate the sacraments in all solemnity, propriety, and purity, but if we are doing nothing to speak the words of God and to do the works of God in the world, if we have no concern for liberation, justice, compassion, and peace, can we claim the name of church? I think not.
Thanks for the post Brad.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Intestering quote. Question: Does it seem a little contradictory to you? If one is preaching the word with ‘purity’, would that not include the latter?
July 18th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
No, I don’t think it’s a contradiction; and no, I don’t think to preach the word with purity includes the latter.
I think there are a good many preacher that speaks truth every Sunday. They preach the pure Word. But that doesn’t mean the church, or even the pastor for that matter, understand true missional-incarnational living. In fact, I can think back even in the last decade and remember solid messages built on the pure Word, but know that the pastor wasn’t engaged in the type of lifestyle that Albert Curry Winn alludes to above.